Two business leaders welcomed the ruling coalition’s fiscal 2015 tax reform package that features a cut in the effective corporate tax rate by more than 3.29 percentage points in fiscal 2015-2016. While hailing the move, Sadayuki Sakakibara, chairman of Keidanren, the country’s largest business ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday his government will finalize a tax break for corporate investment by this fall in addition to its already announced growth strategy. Abe, appearing on a television program aired by public broadcaster NHK, called the series of measures he ...

Born the grandson of a once-prosperous textile manufacturer in Urawa, Saitama Prefecture, Naohiko Jinno says that when he was growing up he was told by his mother, over and over again, that money was not important. Now aged 66, and a professor emeritus of ...